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    "text": "Like the touch of rain she was",
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    "text": "On a man’s flesh and hair and eyes",
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    "text": "With the love of the storm he burns,",
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    "text": "As I shall not forget her “Go now.”",
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    "text": "Those two words shut a door",
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    "text": "Between me and the blessed rain",
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